Two thirds of councils are commissioning 15-minute care visits for disabled residents despite concerns about their appropriateness, a charity has warned. The proportion of ‘flying’ care visits lasting 15 minutes

In the last year there has been a 28.4 per cent increase in alerts made to councils about abuse to older people, fuelling worries about abuse in the UK. The

Councils are abusing elderly people’s human rights by forcing down the price they pay agencies to provide care in their homes, the UK’s official equalities watchdog has warned. In a

Two of London’s drug and alcohol treatment charities, Westminster Drug Project (WDP) and the Seventy4 Foundation, have announced that they are merging. The organisations intend to combine their services to

Reform to the pension system could help people meet the future cost of adult social care, a new report has suggested. In Sickness and in Health: Reforming Pensions and Social

A Cafcass pilot in Warwickshire and Coventry that introduced Family Court Advisors (FCA) at pre-proceedings stage has made significant reductions in the number of cases reaching court and reduced the

There were “a number of significant missed opportunities” to save a two-year-old boy from being beaten to death by his mother, a report has found. Rebecca Shuttleworth is serving a

The NSPCC says social workers “need to deal more effectively with manipulative parents” following a damning report into child protection workers in Birmingham. Social care workers, police and health professionals

A senior council officer has admitted that his authority’s apology for its role in the death of two-year-old Keanu Williams ‘may ring hollow’. Birmingham City Council’s acting strategic director for

Social care workers are the most spread-thin in the UK, but their careers are benefiting as a result, according to detailed research released this morning by Randstad Care, the UK